Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication Date : 2009 02 10
>> The Women
Excellent book and the price was right Condition of this used book was like new
>> Received in perfect condition
Looking forward to reading this book Read Loving Frank and heard this book is equally well done
>> The same thing over and over but backwards
The Women by TC Boyle has an extremely interesting premise tell the story of the love lives of Frank Lloyd Wright through an uninterested third party The narrator brings nothing to the story and is beyond superfluous The narrator also makes use of a lot of footnotes that do nothing except break up the overall storytelling Relying heavily on footnotes is a very lazy way of writing The reader has to stop in the middle of sentences and look up the tiny print footnotes and it completely takes one out of the moment Not to mention that on several pages there were multiple footnotes annotated by strange symbols and I found myself getting lost on the page Too much work if you just want to enjoy the story Also the narrator who has little to do with the actual story must introduce each section by giving some asides to the reader which add nothing to the overall book Many many pages are wasted in this manner
My other complaint about the story is that every woman had a redundant story They each have their little quirks one left her children to be with the Master one was a crazy morphine junky and the other was a refugee from her home country However this is the only thing that separates each woman they all have the same issue with F L Wright he is pompous controlling demanding unreasonable but must be the greatest lover in the history of men in order to get these mostly smart women to endure anything for him And that their stories are told backwards that is to say that they start with the most recent wife and go backwards through time to the first pair of wives and the first one isn t really given any time at all But the women all have the same problems broken promises in debt because of Wright s madness allows him to owe thousands of dollars to the grocer or the laborers and then wonder why they can t just give him whatever he wants because he has graced the peons with the presence of genius All this book confirmed for me that Frank Lloyd Wright is an unreasonable unstable user So what if he is an artist He doesn t know how to treat people
Ultimately this is a modern historical novel and I didn t learn anything that I couldn t have looked up on Google about these women A big miss for me from TC Boyle that was lazily executed and redundant
